MONTY NAICKER

Monty Naicker was a key political fi gure at a time when the
Congress Alliance began to pull Nationalist, Communist,
Indian and African, workers and middle classes, into a
liberation struggle united behind the Freedom Charter.
This book covers the fullness of his life, travelling through
the pages of his diaries and a myriad of other places – from
edinburgh to the dungeons of apartheid’s prisons to the
challenging rhythms of the six-foot dance. It also chronicles
the stories of other activists, inside and outside the Congress
Alliance, who have barely merited a footnote in the histories
of the liberation struggle.
Coming at a time when the Tri-Partite Alliance is trespassed
with deep fi ssures, and when non-racialism is on the retreat,
the book’s searching look at the period when unity was fi rst
forged, illustrates that now, more than ever in South Africa,
history matters.